Thursday, September 06, 2012

Suspected Islamist militants arrested in Bandarban

THE police have arrested three suspected members of the
Jamatul Mujahedin Bangladesh
(JMB), an Islamist terrorist outfit, from Alikadam in Bandarban district,
newspapers have reported today.

Two suspected activists of the banned organization – Abdul
Kaker and his wife Fatema Akter -- were arrested yesterday, Wednesday, in a
raid in their house in Alikadam. The police also recovered 60 Jehadi books from
their possession.

Abdul Kader is a medical technologist at Lama Health
Complex.

The third militant, Md. Hossain, was arrested from Saber
Mia Para in Ali Kadam town the same day, according to Purbokone, a Bengali
daily published from Chittagong.

However, the Suprobhat Bangladesh, another daily from Chittagong,
made no mention of the later’s arrest.

According to press reports and various other sources,
Islamist terrorists are active in the districts of Cox’s Bazaar and
Bandarban. They are rallying under a new organization named Jamatul
Arakan.

The Islamists have already made serious inroads in the
southern Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bandarban, carrying out their activities in
secret. They have established hideouts in Lama, Alikadam, Nakyongchari and
Thanchi Upazilas.

In March last year, the police arrested two Islamist
militants – Shamim Mahfuz (37) and Md. Ismail (36) – from a mountainous hideout
in remote Thanchi Upazila, along with a large cache of bomb making substances
and Jehadi books.

Mahfuz had confessed to the police that they had
participated in Jehad (holly war) to liberate Arakan from Myanmar.

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